The Taos Abstract Artist Collective (TAAC) promotes abstract artists living and working in Northern New Mexico toward the exchange of ideas, new aesthetics and creative concepts. Taos is synonymous with abstract thinking, with origins in indigenous geometries, transcendental and modernist movements, and conceptual and land art installation. Once the nexus for westward bound artists, Taos unleashes expansive, abstract thinkers. It is from this landscape that TAAC is pleased to produce annual exhibitions highlighting abstract concepts across diverse artistic media and practice. Represented amongst the TAAC community are established, mid-career and emerging artists who show in Taos or Northern New Mexico, nationally and internationally.
147 artists from Northern New Mexico submitted more than 350 works to this open call, more than doubling the number of pieces submitted to the 2022 Inaugural Exhibition. As such, TAAC honored the enthusiasm of our community by producing two exciting exhibitions, the first in Fall of 2023, followed by this Spring Exhibition in April of 2024. TAAC is an artist-driven idea platform. Following the success of our Inaugural Exhibition in 2022, TAAC launched the TAAC TALKS virtual artist visit series, produced its first juried exhibition, VIEWPOINT: Abstract Minimalism in Taos, New Mexico; expanded community partnerships and collaborations, hosted social events for artists and obtained its non-profit status. As we look to a bright future, TAAC will continue to prioritize artists and look to amplify abstract art and practice across our region. TAAC is an inclusive group that amplifies self-identifying abstract artists living and working in Northern New Mexico, honoring our intersecting identities across race, national origin, ethnicity, culture, size, gender identity and expression, disability, sexuality, age, socioeconomic status, neurotype, religion and/or spiritual practice. All abstract artists are welcome in their pursuit of provocative expression. Thank you to the artists who responded passionately to our exhibition open call and who actively generate new connections and concepts in creative community-building and art practice. Thank you always to Taos itself for lending its history and legacy to us as a point of challenge, inspiration, and opportunity.
Yours in Abstraction,
TAAC Core Leadership Team
FALL 2023 & SPRING 2024 Curators
Kari Bell
Lauren Dana Smith
Bianca Goyette
Paulina Ho
Lynette O’Kane
Josh Mishell
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